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France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
(www.techradar.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Most other countries already have these sort of laws. In the US you’d just need a warrant from a Judge - which is laughably easy, especially with FISA warrants.
The US really is not the standard any country should set for themselves
As far as I know, police cannot activate your phone's camera or microphone to spy on you in the US, even with a warrant. Do you know of something that says otherwise?
Then you know wrong. The FBI has been doing it for as long as phones have had cameras.
Article from 2013, and even then it wasn’t new: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog